Paper-doll-display board.



L. A. BUCHTEL. PAPER DOLL DISPLAY BOARD.

APRUCATION FILED 1AN.1I.1 915.

Patented Jan. 8,1918.

.LUISE ADELHEID BUCHTEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PAPER-IDOLL-DISPLAY BOARD.

Speazification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 8, EMS.

Application filed January 11, 1915. Serial No. 1,634.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LUISE A. BUCHTEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York, State of New York, ,hasinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Doll-DisplayBoards; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain novel and useful improvements in adisplay board adapted especially for use by children in mounting andholding paper dolls and other objects in upright position.

As is well known, young children derive considerable pleasure andamusement from cutting out pictures of dolls and other objects fromjournals, magazines, newspapers and the like, but usually experiencedifficulty in providing means tomake the cutout figures stand in uprightposition so that they will be displayed to the best poss ble advantage,for owing to the flimsy, flexible nature of the paper it is difficult tocut out the figures and make them stand upright without destroying theappearance of the same.

In the present instance it is my purpose to provide a display board bymeans of which child may mount and support the cut out pictures orfigures so that such figures will be displayed to the best advantage andwithout bending or folding the same.

Still a further object of my invention is to provide a holder of thistype which will embody the desired features of simplicity, efficiencyand convenience, and which embodying as it does, but relatively fewparts, be manufactured and marketed at a comparatively low cost.

lVith the above recited objects and others of a similar nature in view,my invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangementof parts set forth in and falling within the scope of the appendedclaim.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a front view of a board embodying my invention and showingthe manner of mounting the cut out figures thereon.

Fig. 2 is a vertical cross sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig.1.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings in detail, the letter Aindicates the board proper which is preferably made of card orpasteboard, although it will be understood that it maybe made of anysuitable material, such as stifi paper, wood, metal or the like. To theback of this board is hinged a prop or supporting memberB which is alsopreferably made of card board, and the hinge wh ch is shown at C ispreferably made of cloth or fabric pasted to the back of the board Aadjacent the top thereof, and to the back of the supporting member B atthe top of the latter so tnat the support may be readily folded downagainst the board when the latter is not in use, or may be readily swungto supporting position when desired. In the present instance thissupporting member is in the'nature of a stiff sheet of card board whichis almost as long and as wide as the display board A, but it will bereadily understood that this supporting member may be in the form of acard bo rd leg or the like, of sufficient width and stiffness toproperly support the board A in upright position, and that further thissupporting member may be hinged to the back of the board A in anysuitable manner. in order to support the cut out figures at the front ofthe board I prov de a ribbon, cord or the like, indicated at G whichextends longitudinally across the front of the board in spaced parallelstrands or sections. In the present instance this ribbon C is acontinuous or single ribbon, one end of which is fastened as at 1 to theback of the board A adjacent the top thereof. the ribbon being thenpassed back and forth across the front of the board and reeved throughthe vertical rows of apertures l adjacent the side edges of the board toform the parallel spaced strands 2, the ribbon being drawn also throughloops 3 carried by the supporting member B, so that the outwardlyswinging movement of the supporting member relative to the board A willbe limited, as shown in Fig. 2. The tail end of the ribbon is fas enedto the back of the board A adjacent the lower end thereof and at theopposite side of the end 1 of the ribbon, this tail end being indicatedat 5.

The letter D indicates a paper doll, such as might be cut out from amagazine, ournal or the like, and to the back of the figure is pasted apaper tab E which is adapted to be hooked over one of the longitudinalstrands of ribbon running across the front of the board, when it isdesired to support the figure on the board as shown in the drawings.These tabs or paper hooks may be made by the child and pasted to theback of the cut out figure, and the object is then hooked over andsuspended from oneof'the lines or strands of. ribbon in the mannerreadily understood.

From the above description, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, the construction and manner of employing my invention will bereadily apparent. It

will be noted that the whole device comprises simply a board with aswinging supporting member therefor and a continuous ribbon which notonly provides lines or strands across the front of the board forsupporting the figures, but also provides means at the back of the boardfor limiting the out- Ward swinging movement of the supporting member.

What I claim is:

A device of the character described comprising a substantiallyrectangular board the ends of which are provided with inwardlyprojecting slits, the slits in one end being disposedoppositely to theslits in the opposite end, a supporting member hinged to the rear'faceof the board, a single strand of ribbon threaded through the inner endsof the slots with a resultant plurality of spaced longitudinal andparallel supporting members extending longitudinally of one side of theboard, and a plurality of relatively shorter vertically extendingportions at each endof the board parallel with the .end edges and at theopposite side thereof from said longitudinal portions,and means securedto one of the Vertical extensions on Copies of this patent may beobtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). G.

